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Scene: Burglar comes up the stairs at the end of the hallway are these two gentlemen.
"You burgled the wrong house sir"
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
Also good for shooting Jeff Tremaine in the tuchus.
I suppose the 'bloom' expands at a very specific, and relatively far-away distance.
Looks like ~100 yards was the preferred distance.
So, a whole football field away. Wow.
Hmm, must have been really annoying for them waiting around for a crew to mark out the field before they could fire.
I'll... see myself right out, now.
Particularly difficult since these guns were often mounted on small boats ('punts') and fired across waterways XD
Ever try to paint a ten-yard line in the water?